7 Best Wp Favs Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Wp Favs has 3,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 7 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 7 closest alternatives to Wp Favs
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Plugin Notes
Closest match5.0 (26) 400+ active installsAllows you to add notes to plugins.
Shares the plugins tag on WordPress.org. 400+ installs against 3,000+, no update since July 16, 2015.
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4.7 (61) 20,000+ active installsAdds extra options to WordPress' built-in Automatic Updates feature.
Shares the plugins tag on WordPress.org. About 6.7 times the installs, no update since June 4, 2021.
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WPCore Plugin Manager
4.8 (32) 9,000+ active installsCreate plugin collections and install them in one click on any WordPress site.
Shares the plugins tag on WordPress.org. About 3 times the installs, no update since May 20, 2025.
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5.0 (62) 9,000+ active installsAdds a column to the Plugins page where you can add, edit, or delete notes about a plugin.
Shares the plugins tag on WordPress.org. About 3 times the installs, last updated July 23, 2026.
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4.2 (23) 200+ active installsThe essential plugin for every multisite install! Manage plugin access permissions across your entire multisite network.
Shares the plugins tag on WordPress.org. 200+ installs against 3,000+, no update since August 18, 2020.
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WP Rollback – Rollback Plugins and Themes
4.9 (215) 300,000+ active installsRollback (or forward) any WordPress.org plugin, theme, or block like a boss.
Shares the plugins tag on WordPress.org. About 100 times the installs, last updated April 29, 2026.
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4.5 (25) 60,000+ active installsDownload any plugin from your WordPress admin panel's Plugins page by just one click! Now, download themes, users, blog posts, pages, custom post …
Shares the plugins tag on WordPress.org. About 20 times the installs, last updated July 27, 2026.
Switching from Wp Favs: common questions
What is the best alternative to Wp Favs?
Plugin Notes is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 400+ active installs with a 5.0 out of 5 rating.
Which Wp Favs alternative has the most users?
WP Rollback, with 300,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Wp Favs alternative is rated highest?
Plugin Notes Plus, rated 5.0 out of 5 by 62 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Wp Favs alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Wp Favs score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Wp Favs on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Plugin Notes is the closest match to Wp Favs by the data we track, and WP Rollback has the widest reach with 300,000+ active installs. Download Plugin shipped the most recent release, on July 27, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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